Saturday, January 19, 2013

Few days back I was delivering one presentation on Flex to few of the new comers, then suddenly one of the guys asked me one question:

'What is the advantage of learning a technology that is already dead?'

I was shocked by that question. I don't know why people think Flex is dead. May be announcement of Adobe to donate Flex to Apache, may be over hype of HTML5 replacing Flex (well I am doubtful about it in near future at least), may be other reasons. But whatever be the reasons, I thought about writing one small post about it. I did some googling for dead technologies and found the following:

•“.NET
is dead” is the big winner with 576000 search results on Google. Congratulations
J•“JAVA
is dead” is following with 138.000 results. I can hardly feel this!!•“PHP
is dead” is a little child with only 35.600 results.•“Ruby
is dead” is in the same range with 30.700 results.•“AJAX
is dead” generates 6500 results.